Spain: Spanish Legion veterans protest renaming of street honouring Legion general

Hundreds of veteran legionaries from the Spanish Legion protested against the city council’s proposal to rename a street named after General Jose Millan Astray in Madrid, Saturday. SOT, Guillermo Rocafort, Secretary of the Brotherhood of Old Legionaries (Spanish): “We honour the figure of Millan Astray. What the city council, and this cowardly political sector are doing is the same as what the Romans were doing when they used the Damnatio memoriae to erase the names of the great Roman generals and emperor